July 17, 1997 By PETER WAYNER ompanies, computers and people started disappearing from the Internet at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday after a human error at Network Solutions Inc., the company with the primary responsibility for maintaining the master list of domain names, corrupted Internet addresses around the world. “Tens of millions of people are using the Internet, and very few of them know how truly complex it is.” Adam Clayton Powell 3d,The Freedom Forum The error caused e-mail to be ...